The Vietnam War cast a long shadow across one of the most fertile periods of American filmmaking, and has led filmmakers for ...

If you wanted to find the Vietnam War in American television shows, you mostly had to wait until it was long over.

(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File) The Vietnam War cast a long shadow across one ... Foremost among them is the Oscar best picture-winning “Platoon,” which Oliver Stone wrote based on his ...

The Vietnam War cast a long shadow across one of the ... Foremost among them is the Oscar best picture-winning “Platoon,” which Oliver Stone wrote based on his own experiences as an ...

including "First Blood," "Hamburger Hill," "Good Morning Vietnam," "Casualties of War" and "Born on the Fourth of July." Foremost among them is the Oscar best picture-winning "Platoon," which ...

But the war simmered below the surface as ... It might have been called “Platoon: The Series,” after the Vietnam film that had just won best picture at the Oscars. Surprisingly gory and ...